the two things aren't really compatible.

alanabit is a songwriter and he really does need to make his fine product known. there is work to be done.

John Kelly is very different. its all there for you. he interprets traditional folksong really well. very professionally. he plays every folk instrument very very well. so he can vary and surprise his audience.

alanabit and blokes like me - well people aren't comfortable with us describing what we do as folk music. what John Kelly does is indisputably traditional folk music. like the two Alans - its not something he does in between drag racing and ski-ing to the north pole and a career as a brain surgeon - its what we did with our lives. that's why we sound good.

if you can't afford Martin Wyndham Reid or Brian Peters or Martin Carthy - try booking John Kelly. he is very very good.